CIGIE’s Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing Multiple Federal Agencies biennial report consolidates and provides insight into the most frequently reported management and performance challenges identified by Offices of Inspector General. By consolidating these challenges, we hope to assist policymakers to determine how best to address these challenges in the future by highlighting common issues in order to foster improvements across government.

Current Report

Management Challenges of Federal Agencies in Preparing for and Responding to Natural Disasters (October 2022)

Press Release - Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing Multiple Federal Agencies (February 2021)

Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing Multiple Federal Agencies (February 2021) (Full Report)

Press Release - CIGIE Releases First-Ever Report on the Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing Multiple Federal Agencies (April 2018)

Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing Multiple Federal Agencies (April 2018) (Full Report)

Videos

Audio Interview

Federal News Radio Podcast - Michael Horowitz: Council identifies the ties that bind inspectors general (April 27, 2018)

Statements for the Record

2018 - U.S. House of Representatives

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
“Top Management and Performance Challenges Identified Government-Wide by the Inspector General Community” — April 18, 2018

• The Honorable Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice; Chair, CIGIE and Allison C. Lerner, Inspector General, National Science Foundation; Vice-Chair, CIGIE (Joint Statement)

• Glenn A. Fine, Principal Deputy Inspector General Performing the Duties of the Inspector General, Department of Defense